One note, Remington has never, or at least not for a very long time, been a particularly high quality gun manufacturer, aside perhaps from their shotguns (and I

One note, Remington has never, or at least not for a very long time, been a particularly high quality gun manufacturer, aside perhaps from their shotguns (and I don't know about their current quality, only that of the 870 in the '70s and '80s), e.g. see the Model 700 rifle safety debacle including how they handled it, so blaming all quality problems on any particular manager brought in from the outside is not accurate. Besides well publicized stuff stuff like that, this opinion is based on my father and grandfather being lefties, and Remington being the most accommodating company for them for rifles for many decades.